Would probably be easier to just pull down the mail from the POP server and not even use Outlook Express.. Might want to explore that as an option also. There are many component available that interface with POP servers.
Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Michael J. Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:48 PM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: Re: Php 2 Asp > i have 2 questions tonight. > > 1) does anyone have understanding of PHP and if so, can anyone please tell > me what the asp equivelant for the $Pack/$Unpack function is (esp. $Unpack) $pack, and $unpack are variables, not functions. pack() takes a series of numbers, and puts them into a formatted binary-safe string. if you are writing to binary files, you best bet, is to use an array of integers (long), and pass that to the binary function in question, which would most likely be a com object, it will/should handle an array of integers. and treat that as binary data, unfortunately there isn't an exact match. > 2) Does anyone know or have an example on how to read the Outlook Express > *.dbx files? > i do have an example in PHP, and i'm trying to translate it, but my > knowledge of PHP isn't what it's used to be :) > If someone does have an example on reading the OE dbx files, then please > ignore question 1). > i'm trying to import the outlook dbx files into a webmail interface. you should be able to use the com objects for outlook, in order to get the information you want.. forget the name of the libraries in question, as I have been going towards php from asp, instead of the reverse.. ;) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Ryan | ICQ: 4935386 tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)com | AIM/AOL: azTracker1 Roughneck BBS: | Yahoo: azTracker1 http://www.theroughnecks.net | MSN: (email address) telnet://theroughnecks.net | Trillian: www.trillian.cc --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
